Stephen H. Dawson wrote: > Hi, > > > We have a Nagios server setup to send mail through our ISP's email > server. The ISP uses SMTP authentication. The ISP has been pretty > flakey lately in keeping their email server up and running, to send > emails for their customers, in this geographic region. > > We would like to setup a Nagios check to watch the > SMTP authentication. Sometimes they change their ports...among other > problems. If we can get a check running, we can see the alert in the > Nagios GUI that there is a problem, though we (of course) would not > receive the email that there is a problem. > > Not sure where to start with this check. Looking for best practices > and, hopefully, a code example. > > > Thank You, > SHD Try starting here:
http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_smtp This my give you all the details and ways to do what you need -- Never , Ever Cut a Deal With a Dragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
